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NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC)Water's Early Journey in a Solar System ()

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope observed a fledgling solar system like the one depicted in this artist's concept, and discovered deep within it enough water vapor to fill the oceans on Earth five times. This water vapor starts out in the form of ice in a cloudy cocoon (not pictured) that surrounds the embryonic star, called NGC 1333-IRAS 4B (buried in center of image). Material from the cocoon, including ice, falls toward the center of the cloud. The ice then smacks down onto a dusty pre-planetary disk circling the stellar embryo (doughnut-shaped cloud) and vaporizes. Eventually, this water might make its way into developing planets.


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Mediatype: image
Creator: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC)
Date: 0000
Relation: Water Vapor Seen 'Raining Down' on Young Star System [ http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/releases/ssc2007-14/release.shtml ]
Insightuid: nasaNAS~12~12~67456~172252
Source: http://sscws1.ipac.caltech.edu/Imagegallery/image.php?image_name=ssc2007-14d
What: Spitzer Space Telescope
What: Earth
What: Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS)
Where: NGC 1
Identifier: SPITZ-ssc2007-14d
Addeddate: 2009-10-06 03:54:27
Publicdate: 2009-10-06 07:10:19
Keywords: What -- Spitzer Space Telescope; What -- Earth; What -- Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS); Where -- NGC 1

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